Need some serious help here...
Published on February 4, 2007 By Armbut In Video Cards
Okay, first off my mom got a refurbished computer from her friend this week and she wanted me to fix it up for her. I agreed, of course, and when I took my first look at it my thoughts were "OH MY GOD!". It is an HLC Pentium machine with a P 133MHz processor, 64MB of EDO RAM (I upgraded it to 128MB thankfully), 10 GB Hard Drive (I added a second 20GB for 30GB total storage, good enough for her anyway), a CD-ROM 4x drive and Floppy. As I said earlier, I added more system memory, and a second hard disk but my main problem now is with her display. She is running Windows 98 Second Edition for your records, and I added a new Dell M991 Monitor (17" CRT) in place of her old (I could even say rusty) 13 or 15" monitor that came with the PC. I also had this problem with her old monitor for your information. Okay, now to the symptoms: First off, I noticed that her resolution was set at 640x480. So, naturally, I tried to set it at 1024x768 (which appeared to be the maximum resolution supported by her graphics chip). It was at 16 colors, so I changed that to High Color. WhenI clicked "Apply", I got a dialogue box that said "Windows must be restarted for the settings to take effect. Click Yes to restart now or No to restart later.". I clicked Yes to restart, it restarted and it was still set at 640x480 res and 16 colors. This is when I started getting worried. I updated both the Display Adapter and Monitor drivers but Windows Update claimed that the most current drivers were installed and could not continue. What should I do? Thanks for the help guys. Peace.
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on Feb 04, 2007
Booya...I got it ..I changed the Hardware Acceleration to Full and everything is fine now...yay!!!!! Now the comp can go all the way up to 1600x1200...Thanks for the help guys.
on Feb 04, 2007
Unbelievable!  
on Feb 04, 2007
would Hardware Acceleration have anything to do with this?


on Feb 04, 2007
  Its the little things that get you.
I never did ask if it was plugged into the wall socket.    
on Feb 04, 2007
yeah...i feel REALLY stupid right about now...
on Feb 04, 2007
i guess this is just another learning experience...
on Feb 04, 2007
Don't beat yourself up (that's our job)......you'd be amazed how many people don't plug the thing in......  
on Feb 04, 2007
"Hardware Acceleration"....when you get so pissed off with a buggy machine you LAUNCH it through the nearest Window rather than LOAD Windows on it....
on Feb 04, 2007
.....no windows left intact at your place........  
on Feb 04, 2007
LOL. thats why we should all use mac's (not really)

my mac-loving friend said this once "throw an APPLE thru a WINDOW, then look at the BLUE sky...its stupid...
on Feb 05, 2007

"throw an APPLE thru a WINDOW, then look at the BLUE sky...its stupid...

Not wrong....

on Feb 05, 2007
AAAAAAHHHH!!!!! ITS A BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH!!!!! I got one of these on my Vista PC yesterday...shhh...dont tell...
on Feb 05, 2007
dont feel like the lone stranger...I have DOH! moments all the time.  
on Feb 05, 2007
okay
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